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Jean Baptiste Lagimodière

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Occupation
  
trapper


Name
  
Jean-Baptiste Lagimodiere

Jean-Baptiste Lagimodiere

Born
  
December 25, 1776 (
1776-12-25
)
Chambly, Quebec

Died
  
7 September 1855(1855-09-07) (aged 78)

Jean-Baptiste Lagimodière (25 December 1778 in Chambly, Quebec – 7 September 1855) was a French Canadian trapper employed in the fur trade by the Hudson's Bay Company in Rupert's Land.

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Lagimodière is noted both as the grandfather of Métis leader Louis Riel, and as the husband of Marie-Anne Gaboury, the first woman of European descent to travel to and settle in the Canadian west. The Lagimodières were also, in 1812, the first settlers at the Red River Colony near modern Winnipeg, Manitoba.

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